Show BILLION AND tIND UA HAlf NEEDLESSLY WASTED i NEW YORK YORE July 19 T That That at the people peo pee of f this country annually throw throw- p are g i away waya a sum of money that i s 50 per cent more than it costs i 10 to operate the government government in in cold fig- fig V tires ures res 1500 is is statistically t fi shown in Processor Professor Protessor Irving Fishers Fisher's new Y work ork issued by the government prints printing print print- office and entitled A ing Report on s National Vitality i l i Professor Fisher is a member of the of Yale university and a mem- mem memoN be ber of the national conservation l N commission com corn o mission appointed by Theodore Roose r 1 Vin r. r 1 welt velt He is also a member of the committee com corn f of on national health In discussing the national waste in I it lives Professor Fisher shows that there needlessly and continuously con can are persons ill in in the United States and that this condition mig might t well be prevented pre pre- I. I vented b by strict attention to even the thet t 1 Simplest hygienic measures He shows that tuberculosis alone is o sible c-sible for persons continually i. i ill and that it is entirely possible that f h this his scourge can be wiped out within t i J one ne generation Typhoid alone costs the thet t f country and this is a dis dis- ease ease that can be wholly wiped out by attention to neglected details |